Suicide bomber rams motorbike right into a truck in Balochistan province, killing eight members of a paramilitary drive and a civilian.
Islamabad, Pakistan – A suicide bomber driving a motorbike has rammed right into a police truck in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, killing at the least 9 individuals, together with a civilian, and wounding one other 13.
Agha Samiullah, the deputy commissioner of Balochistan’s Kachhi district, advised Al Jazeera the assault came about on Monday morning in Kambri Bridge space of the district, practically 150km (93 miles) east of the provincial capital of Quetta.
Samiullah stated the truck was carrying 21 members of the Balochistan Constabulary, a wing of the provincial police drive.
“The group was getting back from Sibi metropolis the place they'd gone over the weekend to carry out safety duties at a tradition pageant and had been on their means again to Quetta,” he advised Al Jazeera.
No armed group has thus far claimed accountability for the assault.
Mehmood Notezai, a senior police officer in Kachhi, stated the injured had been shifted to Mixed Army Hospital in Sibi. At the very least three persons are reported to be important and being handled at a hospital in Quetta.
Balochistan is dwelling to a decades-old revolt by ethnic Baloch insurgent teams, who've been preventing the Pakistani state, accusing it of exploiting the province’s wealthy fuel and mineral sources.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the assault, calling it part of “nefarious designs to create instability within the nation”.
“All such conspiracies can be made unsuccessful with the general public’s assist,” Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo stated in an announcement.
Final month, a bomb blast in Balochistan’s Barkhan metropolis killed at the least 5 individuals and wounded 14 others.
In January, at the least 13 individuals had been wounded after an explosion in a passenger prepare within the province’s Bolan district.
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